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The Sin of Pleasure and The Virtue of Suffering While hardly a monolith, and thus displaying a more or less expected assortment of gradations, one the groups' shared belief elements presented itself as a variant of one of the oldest and most popular of its species: Suffering Good, Pleasure Bad...

The first time I heard of an "anti-smoking" group being opposed to e-cigarettes, my curiosity was piqued! They're safe, they can be used by even old and sick people like me, they taste good, they come in pink - what's not to like? When I took the time to stop, read and listen, I made an...

People truly Opposed to e-cigarettes are driven by misinfoception or belief. Whether we're at a cocktail party, a family dinner, or on the internet, one of the trickiest conversational skills to master can be recognizing the difference between the two. If you aspire to seize your Good Deed...

Note: This really needs to be hosed off, but I'll probably wait to do that till I get the Belief part up. And thanks to His Illustriousness rolygate who was sweet enough to point out the typo. I guess I had adapters on the brain. I can't imagine why... A lot of people, in fact most people, will...

On a smoking cessation forum the other day (not this one), someone expressed being displeased with people who use e-cigarettes for the wrong reasons. "the wrong reasons?" Seriously? Is this The Bachelorette? One trembles to imagine what those reasons might be. In what benighted horrorverse...

We're still learning about addiction - how it works, why it's just not that into some of us, but so crazy about others that it brings all its stuff and moves in on the first date and refuses to move out even when they stop being nice to it. What we don't know about it would fill a squillion...

I am now lolady The previous one - oh well, if you missed all the excitement, you can read all about it here How's this for short? Do I get to be an honorary member of the tldr posse now, or what?

As we introduce the whole vapor-inhaling thing to our bodies, no matter what issue we may have, it's extremely unlikely that we're the first person who ever experienced it. Poke around the forum, and you'll find 23 gazillion whats, some posted by people who've had the your specific what du...

Frequently Anticipated Questions Why a KR808d-1? Is it really the best? Because the KR808d-1 is the only one I've ever even seen, let alone used, I have no way of knowing if it's "the best." I do know that I, an Authentic Old, Sick, Heavily Sedated Person, was successfully practicing my...

Initial Shopping Philosophy and List (No, not the tldr version yet. Keep scrolling for that) Our initial lump of stuff should be sufficient to provide the best possible chance for establishment and cultivation of a positive, lasting relationship between e-cigarettes and us, but not so huge that...

As you've noticed, in the space of just a few short years, mankind has produced more different varieties of e-cigarettes and various vapor ingestion devices than Stephen Hawking has brain cells. Newcomers to the ECF forum are immediately plunged into an endless welter of alphanumeric soup...

By now, you've probably realized two challenge-bearing truths about that Juust Right! puff: 1) It's harder to achieve consistently than you thought it would be 2) One Juust Right! puff does not fit all cartomizers Overcoming the challenge of that first truth may not be easy, but at least it...

A few days ago, I was reminded that the luxury of a gradual transition is not enjoyed by the entire old and sick population. There are many people whose injuries, illnesses and conditions demand that they cease ingesting the things immediately - and if any of those people have Smart doctors...

"Prepare to stop smoking by keeping a journal," proclaims conventional wisdom. Would-be tobacco-dumpers are advised to jot it down every time we smoke, what we were doing, the occasions and activities that "trigger" our desire to smoke, rate each urge to smoke on a scale, blah blah. If you...

If your medical condition includes chronic pain, or any other element that requires you to take medications with label warnings about operating machinery, or especially ones that, depending on where you live, require you to get a new prescription every month, drop it off and pick them up in...

Psych! The scary headline is just me being bad. From everything I've read, only a very tiny fraction of diabetics notice a "spike" in blood sugar levels as a result of inhaling propylene glycol. The chances are very small that either you or I will be one of them, and if we are, there's a...

If Sun Tzu didn't say that, he meant to. I know this because his mother told me so. She was a lovely woman, and a very good friend of mine. I'm old, remember? Nicotine is a physically addictive substance, but for most of us, nicotine addiction is only a part of our addiction to cigarettes, and...

This isn't the standard CYA "talk to your doctor before you consider changing anti-perspirants," because far too many people, doctors included, do not yet understand that inhaling water vapor and inhaling the Carolina Colonel's 43 selected toxins and carcinogens have some differences. The other...

If you're one of the Great Ones of Iron who quit your 10 pack a day 200 year smoking habit cold turkey despite having the entire ICD manual engraved on your medalert bracelet, being older than Eric the vampire, and so poor that you just got evicted from your van down by the river, all props and...